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Saturday's TV Highlights: 'Smash' on NBC
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of April 28 - May 4, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES Fix This Yard The season premiere...
Tags: Israel, Joe Manchin III, Peter T. King, United Nations, Adam B. Schiff
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Charlize Theron on 'Fox News Sunday'
Staff writerCharlize Theron puts in an appearance this weekend on "Fox News Sunday." The Oscar-winner is a messenger of peace for the United Nations. She and Michel Sidibé, executive director of UNAIDS, are in the power play segment of the program at 10 a.m. Sunday...Tags: Meet the Press (tv program), Joe Manchin III, Adam B. Schiff, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Jason Chaffetz
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Boston bombings to dominate Sunday morning shows
Staff writerTHIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED: Discussion about the Boston Marathon bombings and the suspects will fill the Sunday morning talk shows. A look at the guest list, which has been very fluid this weekend: ABC's "This Week" features Mayor Thomas Menino, D-...Tags: Tim Roemer, Thomas Menino, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Raymond W. Kelly, Woodrow Wilson
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Protect Our Prairies Act creates a nationwide ĀSodsaverĀ provision
Washington, DC - On Feb. 14, Representatives Kristi Noem (R-SD) and Tim Walz (D-MN), along with six additional cosponsors, introduced bipartisan legislation that would protect our nation's remaining native prairies and prime grasslands. The Protect...Tags: Jeff Fortenberry, U.S. Congress, Conservation, Collin Peterson, Environmental Issues
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BioWatch upgrade apparently postponed
WASHINGTON — Amid concerns about cost and reliability, the federal Department of Homeland Security has quietly postponed plans to buy technology that officials have long claimed could provide a life-saving upgrade of BioWatch, the nation's system...
Tags: Lab Tests, Democratic National Convention (2008), U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security, U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce
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Congress members voice doubts about BioWatch
WASHINGTON — Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee and a senior Republican colleague voiced grave doubts Thursday about the viability of BioWatch, the nation's system for detecting biological attacks that has been plagued by false...
Tags: Laura Richardson, Yvette D. Clarke, Democratic Party, National Security, Bioterrorism
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TSA officers will be retrained after racial profiling complaints
CNNThe Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is retraining some workers after allegations of racial profiling by officers assigned to look for people behaving suspiciously, a spokesman said. The classes come after agents at Boston's Logan...Tags: Transportation Security Administration, Social Issues, American Civil Liberties Union, Bill Keating, Racism
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Americans on no-fly list allowed to learn to fly
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. citizens who are on the government's list of people banned from flying because they're considered terror threats are not prevented from learning how to fly in schools around the country, according to government regulation....
Tags: Transportation Security Administration, Mike J. Rogers, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Washington, DC, Crime, Law and Justice
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Victims of 1998 Africa bombing still seeking compensation
Fourteen years after a truck bomb ripped through the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, the families of 12 Americans killed in the attack are still fighting for federal compensation that has been granted to other terrorism victims — a struggle that has...Tags: Saudi Arabia, Allen West, Tanzania, September 11, 2001 Attacks, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations
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Homeland Security official: Airport employees are potential terror risks
WASHINGTON (AP) — Commercial air travel is at risk from terrorists who quietly get jobs at airports so that they can attack from within sensitive areas, a senior Homeland Security Department official told lawmakers Wednesday. There has never been...
Tags: Transportation Security Administration, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, National Security, Washington, DC, U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security
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House vote sets up Senate cybersecurity showdown over privacy, corporate and government spying
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House’s solid bipartisan vote for a cybersecurity bill sends a message to the Senate: Now it’s your turn to act. Ignoring a White House veto threat, the House approved the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011, Computer Networking and Internet, Government, Networking
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House members to TSA: You will inspect all inbound air cargo, right?
CNNSeveral House lawmakers want to know if the Transportation Security Administration is backtracking on plans to screen 100% of cargo placed on international passenger flights to the United States. In a letter to TSA Administrator John Pistole, the...Tags: Transportation Security Administration, CNN (tv network), U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security, Justice System, Laws
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